NOAA FISHERIES

Genetic diversity and differentiation between the two remaining populations of the critically endangered Mediterranean monk seal Pastor, T., J. C. Garza, A. Aguilar, E. Tounta, and E. Androukaki Animal Conservation 10(4):461-469

Population genetics of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the Klamath River Pearse, D.E., C.J. Donohoe, and J.C. Garza Environmental Biology of Fishes 80:377-387

Identification of northeastern Pacific rockfish using multilocus nuclear DNA genotypes Pearse, D.E., L. Wooninck, C.A. Dean, and C.J. Garza Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136(1):272-280

Time series of the northeast Pacific Pena, M. Angelica, and Steven J. Bograd Progress in Oceanography 75(2):115-119

Proposed updates to the list of recognised species of cetaceans Perrin, W.F., and R.L. Brownell Paper SC/59/O15 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC59 meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, 2007). 4 p.

Cranial description and genetic identity of the holotype specimen of Tursiops aduncus (Ehrenberg, 1832) Perrin, W.F., K.M. Robertson, P.J.H. Van Bree, and J.G. Mead Marine Mammal Science 23(3):343-357

External appearance of the dwarf spinner dolphin Stenella longirostris roseiventris Perrin, W.F., M.T. Aquino, M.L.L. Dolar, and M.N.R. Alava Marine Mammal Science 23(4):730

The small-cetacean fauna of the west coast of Africa and Macaronesia: diversity and distribution Perrin, William F., and Koen Van Waerebeek WATCH: Western African Talks on Cetaceans and their Habitats (Adeje, Tenerife, Spain, 16-20 October 2007). United Nations Environment Programme, Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, UNEP/CMS-WATCH-Inf.6, 10 p.

Recent pre-recruit Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) occurrences in the northern California Current suggest a northward expansion of their spawning area Phillips, A. Jason, Stephen Ralston, Richard D. Brodeur, Toby D. Auth, Robert L. Emmett, Carrie Johnson, and Vidar G. Wespestad CalCOFI Reports 48:215-229

Marine debris collects within the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone Pichel, William G., James H. Churnside, Timothy S. Veenstra, David G. Foley, Karen S. Friedman, Russell E. Brainard, Jeremy B. Nicoll, Quanan Zheng, and Pablo Clemente-Colon Marine Pollution Bulletin 54(8):1207-1211

Nesting of the leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) from 1999-2000 through 2003-2004 at Playa Langosta, Parque Nacional Marino Las Baulas de Guanacaste, Costa Rica Piedra, R., E. Vélez, P. Dutton, E. Possardt, and C. Padilla Chelonian Conservation and Biology 6:111-116

Abundance and distribution of the eastern North Pacific Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) population Pitcher, K. W., P. F. Olesiuk, R. F. Brown, M. S. Lowry, S. J. Jeffries, J. L. Sease, W. L. Perryman, C. E. Stinchcomb, and L. F. Lowry Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 105:102-115 MARINE MAMMALS - PINNIPEDS - SEA LIONS - EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC STELLAR SEA LION - POPULATION - ABUNDANCE - DISTRIBUTION

How now, little cow? Pitman, R. L., and L. Rojas-Bracho Natural History 116(6):28-32 MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - DOLPHIN - VAQUITA - BAIJI - ENDANGERED - MEXICO - GULF OF CALIFORNIA

Killer whales preying on a blue whale calf on the Costa Rica Dome: genetics, morphometrics, vocalisations and composition of the group Pitman, Robert L., Holly Fearnbach, Richard LeDuc, James W. Gilpatrick Jr., John K.B. Ford, and Lisa T. Ballance Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 9(2):151-157

A dwarf form of killer whale in Antarctica Pitman, Robert L., Wayne L. Perryman, Don LeRoi, and Erik Eilers Journal of Mammalogy 88(1):43-48 MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - DOLPHIN - KILLER WHALE - DWARF FORM - ANTARCTICA

A management strategy evaluation of rebuilding revision rules for overfished rockfish stocks Punt, André E., and Stephen Ralston J. Heifetz, et al. (eds.), Biology, assessment, and management of north Pacific rockfishes, p. 329-351. Alaska Sea Grant no. AK-SG-07-01.

Sounds recorded in the presence of Blainville’s beaked whales, Mesoplodon densirostris, near Hawai'i Rankin, S., and J. Barlow Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(1):42-45 MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - BLAINSVILLE BEAKED WHALE - ACOUSTICS- HAWAII - SOUND RECORDING

Patterned burst-pulse vocalizations of the northern right whale dolphin, Lissodelphis borealis Rankin, S., J. Oswald, J. Barlow, and M. Lammers Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121(2):1213-1218 MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - NORTHERN RIGHT WHALE - ACOUSTICS - VOCALIZATIONS

A visual sighting and acoustic detections of minke whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Cetacea: Balaenopteridae), in nearshore Hawaiian waters Rankin, S., T. F. Norris, M. A. Smultea, C. Oedekoven, A. M. Zoidis, E. Silva, and J. Rivers Pacific Science 61(3):395-398 MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - MINKE WHALE - ACOUSTICS - DETECTION - HAWAII - VISUAL SIGHTINGS

Vocalizations of the Sei whale Balaenoptera borealis off the Hawaiian Islands Rankin, Shannon, and Jay Barlow Bioacoustics 16(2):137-145

Southern Hemisphere humpback whales wintering off Central America: insights from water temperature into the longest mammalian migration. Rasmussen, K., D. M. Palacios, J. Calambokidis, M. T. Saborı´o, L. Dalla Rosa, E. R. Secchi, G. H. Steiger, J. M. Allen, and G. S. Stone. Biology Letters 3(3):302-305 MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - HUMPBACK WHALE - CENTRAL AMERICA - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE - WATER TEMPERATURE - MIGRATION

Comparison of humpback whale entanglement across the North Pacific Ocean based on scar evidence Robbins, J., J. Barlow, A.M. Burdin, J. Calambokidis, C. Gabriele, P. Clapham, J. Ford, R.G. LeDuc, D.K. Mattila, T. Quinn, L. Rojas-Bracho, J.M. Straley, J. Urban, P.R. Wade, D.W. Weller, B.H. Witteveen, K. Wynne, and M. Yamaguchi Paper SC/59/BC15 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC59 meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, 2007). 4 p.

Extraction of DNA from formalin-fixed cetacean tissues Robertson, Kelly M., Carrie A. LeDuc, Rick G. LeDuc, and Phillip A. Morin U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-400. 17 p. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DNA - EXTRACTION - TISSUES

Life history and stock structure of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) Rooker, Jay R., Jaime R. Alvarado Bremer, Barbara A. Block, Heidi Dewar, Gregorio De Metrio, Aldo Corriero, Richard T. Kraus, Eric D. Prince, Enrique Rodriguez-Marin, and David H. Secor Reviews in Fisheries Science 15(4):265-310

Report of the Large Whale Health Assessment Workshop, Olympia, Washington, 8-9 December 2006 Rowles, T., A.L. Bradford, J. Calambokidis, E.A. Falcone, C.M. Gabriele, J.K. Gaydos, M.M. Krahn, D.K. Mattila, B. Norberg, S. Raverty, J. Robbins, L. Rojas-Bracho, R.M. Rolland, C. Rosa, D.S. Rotstein, J. Urban, D.W. Weller, and M. Yamaguchi Paper SC/59/DW2 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC59 meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, 2007). 7 p.

Influence of headwater site conditions and riparian buffers on terrestrial salamander response to forest thinning Rundio, David E., and Deanna H. Olson Forest Science 53(2):320-330

High-frequency patterns in abundance of larval Pacific hake, Merluccius productus, and rockfish, Sebastes spp., at a single fixed station off central California. Sakuma, K. M., S. Ralston, and D. A. Roberts. Fisheries Oceanography 16(4):383-394. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - ROCKFISH - PACIFIC HAKE - CALIFORNIA - LARVAE - ABUNDANCE - MONITORING - TRENDS - LESSONS - STATION DATA

Directed connectivity among fish populations in a riverine network Schick, Robert S., and Steven T. Lindley Journal of Applied Ecology 44(6):1116-1126

Development of a standardized DNA database for Chinook salmon Seeb, L.W., A. Antonovich, M.A. Banks, T.D. Beacham, M.R. Bellinger, S.M. Blankenship, M.R. Campbell, N.A. Decovich, J.C. Garza, C.M. Guthrie III, T.A. Lundrigan, P. Moran, S.R. Narum, J.J. Stephenson, K.J. Supernault, D.J. Teel, W.D. Templin, et al. Fisheries 32:540-552

Leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in the Gulf of California: distribution, demography, and human interactions Seminoff, J.A., and P.H. Dutton Chelonian Conservation and Biology 6:137-141

Refocusing on leatherbacks: conservation challenges and signs of success Seminoff, Jeffrey A., Frank V. Paladino, and Anders G.J. Rhodin Chelonian Conservation and Biology 6(1):1-6

Morphology and biomechanics of a "three-wing" flying fish: Parexocoetus brachypterus [abstract] Shadwick, Robert E., and Robert L. Pitman Eighth International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (Paris, France, July 16-21, 2007). Journal of Morphology 268(12):1041-1154.

Back-calculating length from skeletal growth marks in loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta Snover, M.L., L. Avens, and A.A. Hohn Endangered Species Research 3(1):95-104

The ecology of marine fishes, California and adjacent waters [book review] Sogard, Susan M. Fisheries 32(3):145-146

Developments, considerations and recommendations by the land-based predator survey correspondence group: a second summary and update Southwell, C., P. Trathan, W. Trivelpiece, M. Goebel, and P. Wilson CCAMLR Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (Christchurch, New Zealand, 17-26 July 2007), Document no. WG-EMM-07/20 (3 p.)

Evidence for the existence of a native population of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) and subsequent introgression with introduced populations in a Pacific Northwest watershed Spies, I.B., E.C. Anderson, K. Naish, and P. Bentzen Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64:1209-1221

Simulation of the estimation of ageing bias inside an integrated assessment of canary rockfish using age estimates from a bomb radiocarbon study Stewart, Ian J., and Kevin R. Piner Marine and Freshwater Research 58(10):905-913

An investigation of time series prediction methods for improved stock projections: understanding variability in fish populations (first year of a 2-year project) Sugihara, George, and Roger Hewitt Report to NOAA Fisheries and the Environment (FATE) program, Project 06-17. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, Maryland. 2 p.

Leatherback turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, hatching success at Jamursba-Medi and Wermon Beaches in Papua, Indonesia Tapilatu, Ricardo F., and Manjula Tiwari Chelonian Conservation and Biology 6(1):154-158

Lessons from monitoring trends in abundance of marine mammals Taylor, B. L., M. Martinez, T. Gerrodette, J. Barlow, and Y. N. Horvat Marine Mammal Science 23(1):157-175 MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - PINNIPEDS - ABUNDANCE - MONITORING - TRENDS - LESIONS

Synthesis of lines of evidence for population structure for bowhead whales in the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort region Taylor, Barbara L., Rick LeDuc, Craig George, Robert Suydam, Sue E. Moore, and David Rugh Paper SC/59/BRG35 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC59 meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, 2007). 12 p.

Logbook pilot program for California’s nearshore groundfish fishery: results and lessons learned Thomson, Cynthia, David VenTresca, and David Colpo U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-408. 29+2 p. MARINE FISHES - GROUNDFISHES - CALIFORNIA - NEARSHORE GROUNDFISH FISHERY - LOGBOOK PILOT PROGRAM - RESULTS - LESSONS LEARNED

When is logging road erosion worth monitoring? Tomberlin, D., and T. Ish Proceedings of the International Mountain Logging and 13th Pacific Northwest Skyline Symposium (April 1-6, 2007, Corvallis, Oregon), p. 239-244. Oregon State University, College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon. (CD-ROM)

Trip-level analysis of efficiency changes in Oregon's deepwater trawl fishery Tomberlin, David, and Garth Holloway Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Nota di Lavoro (Working Paper) 86.2007. (17 p.)

Bottom-up forcing and the decline of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in Alaska: assessing the ocean climate hypothesis Trites, Andrew W., Arthur J. Miller, Herbert G.G. Maschner, Michael A. Alexander, Steven J. Bograd, John A. Calder, Antonietta Capotondi, Kenneth O. Coyle, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Bruce P. Finney, Edward J. Gregr, Chester E. Grosch, Steven R. Hare, George L. Hunt Jr., Jaime Jahncke, Nancy B. Kachel, Hey-Jin Kim, Carol Ladd, Nathan J. Mantua, Caren Marzban, Wieslaw Maslowski, Roy Mendelssohn, Douglas J. Neilson, Stephen R. Okkonen, James E. Overland, Katherine L. Reedy-Maschner, Thomas C. Royer, Franklin B. Schwing, Julian X.L. Wang, and Arliss J. Winship Fisheries Oceanography 16(1): 46-67 MARINE MAMMALS - PINNIPEDS - SEA LIONS - STELLAR SEA LION - ALASKA - BOTTOM-UP FORCING - DECLINE - CLIMATE

The winter distribution of chinstrap penguins from two breeding sites in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica Trivelpiece, W.Z., S. Buckelew, C. Reiss, and S.G. Trivelpiece Polar Biology 30:1231-1237

Regional variation in the marine growth and energy accumulation of juvenile Chinook salmon and coho salmon along the west coast of North America Trudel, Marc, Mary E. Thiess, Cynthia Bucher, Edward V. Farley Jr., R. Bruce MacFarlane, Edmundo Casillas, Joseph Fisher, John F. T. Morris, James M. Murphy, and David W. Welch C. B. Grimes et al. (eds.), The ecology of juvenile salmon in the northeast Pacific Ocean: regional comparisons. American Fisheries Society Symposium 57:205-232.

First human-caused extinction of a cetacean species? Turvey, S.T., R.L. Pitman, B.L. Taylor, J. Barlow, T. Akamatsu, L.A. Barrett, X. Zhao, R.R. Reeves, B.S. Stewart, K. Wang, Z. Wei, X. Zhang, L.T. Pusser, M. Richlen, J.R. Bandon, and D. Wang Biology Letters 3(5):537-540

Mass stranding of Baird's beaked whales at San Jose Island, Gulf of California, Mexico Urban R., Jorge, Gustavo Cardenas-Hinojosa, Alejandro Gomez-Gallardo U., Ursula Gonzalez-Peral, Wezddy del Toro-Orozco, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals 6(1):83-88

Depletion of spotted and spinner dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific: modeling hypotheses for their lack of recovery Wade, Paul R., George M. Watters, Tim Gerrodette, and Stephen B. Reilly Marine Ecology Progress Series 343:1-14

Distribution, abundance and conservation status of the eastern Taiwan Strait population of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins, Sousa chinensis Wang, John Y., Shih Chu Yang, Samuel K. Hung, and Thomas A. Jefferson Mammalia 71(4):157-165

A biological framework for evaluating whether a species is threatened or endangered in a significant portion of its range Waples, R.S., P.B. Adams, J. Bohnsack, and B.L. Taylor Conservation Biology 21(4):964-974

Normativity redux Waples, Robin S., Peter B. Adams, James Bohnsack, and Barbara L. Taylor Conservation Biology 21(6):1649-1650

Ichthyoplankton and station data for oblique (bongo net) plankton tows taken during a survey of shallow coastal waters of the Southern California Bight in 2004 and 2005 Watson, William, Susan M. Manion, and Richard L. Charter U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-410. 63 p. ICHTHYOPLANKTON DATA - STATION DATA - OBLIQUE PLANKTON TOWS (BONGO NET) - CALCOFI - SURVEYS - CRUISES - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT - SHALLOW COASTAL WATERS

Status of western gray whales off northeastern Sakhalin Island, Russia Weller, D.W., A.L. Bradford, A.R. Lang, H.W. Kim, G.A. Tsidulko, A.M. Burdin, and R.L. Brownell Paper SC/59/BRG19 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC59 meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, 2007).

Tagging large whales: a review of benefits and concerns with particular focus on western gray whales. Progress report. Weller, David W. Item WGWAP 2/INF.19 submitted to the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel (2nd Meeting, 12 April 2007). 6 p.

Western gray whales off Sakhalin Island, Russia: A joint Russia-U.S. scientific investigation July-September 2007. Interim report. Weller, David W., Amanda L. Bradford, Aimee R. Lang, Hyun Woo Kim, Maxim Sidorenko, Grigory A. Tsidulko, Alexander M. Burdin, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Item WGWAP 4/INF.21 submitted to the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel (4th Meeting, 11 April 2008). 15 p.

Quantifying the effects of wind, upwelling, curl, sea surface temperature and sea level height on growth and maturation of a California Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) population. Wells, B. K., C. B. Grimes, and J. B. Waldvogel. Fisheries Oceanography 16(4):363-382 ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMON - CHINOOK - GROWTH - MATURATION - CLIMATE - WIND - UPWELLING - CURL - SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE - SEA LEVEL HEIGHT - EFFECTS

MONITORING AND RESEARCH NEEDED TO MANAGE THE RECOVERY OF THREATENED AND ENDANGERED CHINOOK AND STEELHEAD IN THE SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN BASIN WILLIAMS, J.G., J.J. ANDERSON, S. GREENE, C. HANSON, STEVEN T. LINDLEY, A. LOW, B.P. MAY, D. McEWAN, M.S. MOHR, R.B. MacFARLANE, AND C. SWANSON U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-399. 11 p. ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMON - CHINOOK - STEELHEAD - CALIFORNIA - SACRAMENTO SAN JOAQUIN BASIN - THREATENED - ENDANGERED - RECOVERY - MONITORING

Anthropogenic noise as a stressor in animals: a multidisciplinary perspective Wright, Andrew J., Natacha Aguilar Soto, Ann Linda Baldwin, Melissa Bateson, Colin M. Beale, Charlotte Clark, Terrence Deak, Elizabeth F. Edwards, Antonio Fernandez, Ana Godinho, Leila T. Hatch, Antje Kakuschke, David Lusseau, Daniel Martineau, L. Michael Romero, Linda S. Weilgart, Giuseppe Notarbartolo-di-Sciara, and Vidal Martin International Journal of Comparative Psychology 20(2-3):250-273

Do marine mammals experience stress related to anthropogenic noise? Wright, Andrew J., Natacha Aguilar Soto, Ann Linda Baldwin, Melissa Bateson, Colin M. Beale, Charlotte Clark, Terrence Deak, Elizabeth F. Edwards, Antonio Fernandez, Ana Godinho, Leila T. Hatch, Antje Kakuschke, David Lusseau, Daniel Martineau, L. Michael Romero, Linda S. Weilgart, Giuseppe Notarbartolo-di-Sciara, and Vidal Martin International Journal of Comparative Psychology 20(2-3):274-316

Biological indices obtained from a pod of killer whales entrapped by sea ice Yamada, T.K., Y. Uni, M. Amano, R.L. Brownell Jr., H. Sato, S. Ishikawa, I. Ezakii, K. Sasamori, T. Takahashi, Y. Masuda, T. Yoshida, Y. Tajima, M. Makara, K. Arai, T. Kakuda, A. Hayano, E. Sone, S. Nishida, H. Koike, A. Yatabe, T. Kubodera, Y. Omata, Y. Umeshita, M. Watarai, M. Tachibana, M. Sasaki, K. Murata, Y. Sakai, M. Asakawa, K. Miyoshi, S. Mihara, Y. Anan, T. Ikemoto, N. Kajiwara, T. Kunisue, S. Kamikawa, Y. Ochi, S. Yano, and S. Tanabe Paper SC/59/SM12 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC59 meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, 2007).

Fisher profiles and perceptions of sea turtle–fishery interactions: Case study of east coast Peninsular Malaysia Yeo, Bee Hong, Dale Squires, Kamarruddin Ibrahim, Heidi Gjertsen, Syarifah Khadiejah Syed Mohd Kamil, Rahayu Zulkifli, Theodore Groves, Hong Meen Chee, and Tan Chun Hong WorldFish Center (Penang, Malaysia), Discussion Series no. 6. 69 p.

A fishery-independent assessment of an overfished rockfish stock, cowcod (Sebastes levis), using direct observations from an occupied submersible Yoklavich, M.M., M.S. Love, and K.A. Forney Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64:1795-1804

Estimating abundance of killer whales in the nearshore waters of the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands using line-transect sampling Zerbini, Alexandre N., Janice M. Waite, John W. Durban, Rick LeDuc, Marilyn E. Dahlheim, and Paul R. Wade Marine Biology 150(5):1033-1045

Analysis of Fst outliers at allozyme loci in Pacific salmon: implications for natural selection. Aguilar, A. Environmental Biology of Fishes 76(2-4):329-339 ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMON - PACIFIC - GENETICS - OUTLIERS - ALLOZYME LOCI

A comparison of variability and population structure for major histocompatibility complex and microsatellite loci in California coastal steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum). Aguilar, A., and J. C. Garza Molecular Ecology 15(4): 923-937 ANADROMOUS FISHES - STEELHEAD - CALIFORNIA - POPULATION - VARIABILITY - GENETICS - MICROSATELLITE LOCI

Bays and estuaries Allen, Larry G., Mary M. Yoklavich, Gregor M. Cailliet, and Michael H. Horn In: Larry G. Allen, Daniel J. Pondella II, and Michael H. Horn (eds.), The ecology of marine fishes: California and adjacent waters, p. 119-148. University of California Press. OCEANOGRAPHY - BAYS - ESTUARIES - MARINE FISHES - ECOLOGY

Ichthyoplankton and station data for surface (Manta) and oblique (Bongo) plankton tows for California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations survey in 2005 Ambrose, David A., Richard L. Charter, Susan M. Manion U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-392. 125 p. ICHTHYOPLANKTON DATA - STATION DATA - SURFACE PLANKTON TOWS (MANTA) - OBLIQUE PLANKTON TOWS (BONGO) - CALCOFI - SURVEYS - CRUISES

The power of single-nucleotide polymorphisms for large-scale parentage inference. Anderson, E. C., and J. C. Garza. Genetics 172(4):2567-2582. GENETICS - SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS - LARGE SCALE PARENTAGE INFERENCE - GENOTYPING - STATISTICS - METHODS - EXCLUSION - LIKELIHOOD - SIMULATIONS - HYPOTHETICAL LARGE POPULATIONS - ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMON - CHINOOK

Marine species. Armsworth, P. R., C. V. Kappel, F. Micheli, and E. P. Bjorkstedt. D. D. Goble, J. M. Scott, and F. W. Davis (eds.), The Endangered Species Act at Thirty, vol. 1: Renewing the conservation promise, p. 36-44. Island Press. MARINE SPECIES - ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

Working seascapes. Armsworth, P. R., C. V. Kappel, F. Micheli, and E. P. Bjorkstedt. D. D. Goble, J. M. Scott, and F. W. Davis (eds.), The Endangered Species Act at Thirty, vol. 2: Conserving biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes, p. 244-255. Island Press. MARINE ECOLOGY - MARINE HABITAT - ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

Killer whales in Hawaiian waters: Information on population identity and feeding habits Baird, R. W., D. J. McSweeney, C. Bane, J. Barlow, D. R. Salden, L. K. Antoine, R. G. LeDuc, and Daniel L. Webster Pacific Science 60(4):523-530 MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - DOLPHIN - KILLER WHALE - HAWAII - POPULATION - IDENTIFICATION - FEEDING HABITS - DIET - BEHAVIOR

Diving behaviour of Cuvier's (Ziphius cavirostris) and Blainville's (Mesoplodon densirostris) beaked whales in Hawai'i Baird, Robin W., Daniel L. Webster, Daniel J. McSweeney, Allan D. Ligon, Gregory S. Schorr, and Jay Barlow Canadian Journal of Zoology 84(8):1120-1128

Oceanographic influences on seabirds and cetaceans of the eastern tropical Pacific: A review Ballance, Lisa T., Robert L. Pitman, and Paul C. Fiedler Progress in Oceanography 69(2-4):360-390 MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - BIRDS - SEABIRDS - MARINE BIRDS - EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC - ETP - OCEANOGRAPHY - OCEANOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES - REVIEW

The removal of large whales from the Southern Ocean: evidence for long-term ecosystem effects? Ballance, Lisa T., Robert L. Pitman, Roger P. Hewitt, Donald B. Siniff, Wayne Z. Trivelpiece, Phillip J. Clapham, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. In: James A. Estes et al. (eds.), Whales, whaling, and ocean ecosystems, p. 215-230. University of California Press.

THE PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OFF THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST DURING MAY-JUNE 2001: A SUMMARY OF CTD AND OTHER HYDROGRAPHIC DATA FROM YOUNG OF THE YEAR JUVENILE ROCKFISH SURVEYS BALTZ, KENNETH A., KEITH M. SAKUMA, STEPHEN RALSTON U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-395. 83 p. OCEANOGRAPHY - PHYSICAL - CALIFORNIA - CTD - ROCKFISH - PELAGIC YOUNG OF THE YEAR - JUVENILES - SURVEYS

Climate change and the economics of thw world's fisheries: an introduction Barange, Manuel, Rognvaldur Hannesson, and Samuel F. Herrick Jr. In: Rognvaldur Hannesson, Manuel Barange, and Samuel F. Herrick Jr. (eds.), Climate change and the economics of the world's fisheries: examples of small pelagic stocks, p. xv-xvii. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Cetacean abundance in Hawaiian waters estimated from a summer/fall survey in 2002 Barlow, J. Marine Mammal Science 22(2):446-464 MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - HAWAII - ABUNDANCE - ESTIMATES - SURVEYS

Mitigating, monitoring and assessing the effects of anthropogenic sound on beaked whales Barlow, J. and R. Gisiner Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 7(3):239-249 MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - BEAKED WHALE - NOISE - ANTHROPOGENIC SOUND - BEHAVIOR - EFFECTS - MITIGATION - MONITORING - ASSESSMENT

Abundance and density of beaked and bottlenose whales (family Ziphiidae) Barlow, J., M. Ferguson, W. F. Perrin, L. Ballance, T. Gerrodette, G. Joyce, C. D. MacLeod, K. Mullin, D. L. Palka, and G. Waring Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 7(3):263-270 MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - BEAKED WHALE - BOTTLENOSE WHALE - ABUNDANCE - DENSITY - POPULATION DYNAMICS

Use of otoliths to identify river and hatchery of origin of California Central Valley Chinook salmon in the ocean fishery: potential application to Klamath River Chinook salmon Barnett-Johnson, Rachel, Frank C. Ramos, Churchill B. Grimes, and R. Bruce MacFarlane Pacific Fishery Management Council, June 2006 Briefing Book, Informational Report 1. 3 p.

Predation, competition, and the recovery of overexploited fish stocks in marine reserves. Baskett, M., M. Yoklavich, and M. Love. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63(6):1214-1229. MARINE FISHES - PREDATION - COMPETITION - RECOVERY - OVEREXPLOITED FISH STOCKS - MARINE RESERVES

Comparative Lagoon Ecological Assessment Project (CLEAP), Santa Cruz County, California Beck, Nicole, Ellen Freund, and Maggie Mathias Report for the Santa Cruz County Resource Conservation District, funded by the California Coastal Conservancy. 2ndNature, Santa Cruz, California. 270 p. + appendices.

Petrale sole: STAR Panel report (Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington, September 26-30, 2005) Berkeley, Steven, Martin Dorn, Ray Conser, Owen Hamel, Robert Mohn, Kevin Piner, Stephen Ralston, John DeVore, and Peter Leipzig In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume II. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 8 p.

Potential steelhead over-summering habitat in the south-central/southern California coast recovery domain: maps based on the envelope method Boughton, David A. and Matthew Goslin U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-391. 36 p. ANADROMOUS FISHES - STEELHEAD - CALIFORNIA - HABITAT - COASTAL MONITORING - RECOVERY DOMAIN - MAPS - ENVELOPE METHOD

Steelhead of the south-central/southern California coast: population characterization for recovery planning. Boughton, David A., Peter B. Adams, Eric Anderson, Craig Fusaro, Edward Keller, Elise Kelley, Leo Lentsch, Jennifer Nielsen, Katie Perry, Helen Regan, Jerry Smith, Camm Swift, Lisa Thompson, Fred Watson U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-394. 116 p. ANADROMOUS FISHES - STEELHEAD - CALIFORNIA - HABITAT - COASTAL MONITORING - RECOVERY PLANNING - POPULATION - CHARACTERIZATION

Survival estimates of western gray whales Eschrichtius robustus incorporating individual heterogeneity and temporary emigration Bradford, A. L., P. R. Wade, D. W. Weller, A. M. Burdin, Y. V. Ivashchenko, G. A. Tsidulko, G. R. VanBlaricom, R. L. Brownell Jr. Marine Ecology Progress Series 315:293-307 MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - GRAY WHALE - SURVIVAL ESTIMATES - HETEROGENEITY - EMIGRATION

Anthropogenic scarring of western gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus): a preliminary report Bradford, A.L., D.W. Weller, A.M. Burdin, Y.V. Ivashchenko, and R.L. Brownell Paper SC/58/BRG12 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC58 meeting, St. Kitts and Nevis, 2006). 14 p.

Use of moored acoustic instruments to measure short-term variability in abundance on Antarctic krill. Brierley, A. S., R. A. Saunders, D. G. Bone, E. J. Murphy, P. Enderlein, S. G. Conti, and David A. Demer. Limnology and Oceanography Methods 4:18-29. INVERTEBRATES - CRUSTACEANS - KRILL - ANTARCTIC KRILL - ANTARCTICA - ABUNDANCE - MOORED ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS - SHORT TERM VARIABILITY

Anomalous pelagic nekton abundance, distribution, and apparent recruitment in the northern California Current in 2004 and 2005. Brodeur, R. D., S. Ralston, R. L. Emmett, M. Trudel, T. D. Auth, and A. J. Phillips. Geophysical Research Letters 33:L22S08 (5 p.) MARINE ANIMALS - NEKTON - PELAGIC - ANOMALIES - ABUNDANCE - DISTRIBUTION - RECRUITMENT - OCEANOGRAPHY - CALIFORNIA CURRENT ECOSYSTEM - CCE

Fishing gear entanglement of western gray whales: threat to survival Brownell, R.L. Paper SC/58/BRG1 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC58 meeting, St. Kitts and Nevis, 2006)

The floating factory ship "California" operations in Californian waters: 1932-1937 Brownell, R.L. Jr., and S.L. Swartz Paper SC/58/O1 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC58 meeting, St. Kitts and Nevis, 2006). 8 p.

Mass strandings of melon-headed whales, Peponocephala electra: a worldwide review Brownell, R.L. Jr., T.K. Yamada, J.G. Mead, and B.M. Allen Paper SC/58/SM8 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC58 meeting, St. Kitts and Nevis, 2006). 12 p.

Status of western gray whales of Sakhalin Island, Russia, in 2005 Burdin, A.M., A.L. Bradford, A.R. Lang, G.A. Tsidulko, H.W. Kim, R.L. Brownell Jr. Paper SC/58/BRG3 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC58 meeting, St. Kitts and Nevis, 2006). 10 p.

The use of multibeam sonar mapping techniques to refine population estimates of the endangered white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni). Butler, J., M. Neuman, D. Pinkard, R. Kvitek, and G. Cochrane. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 104:521-532. INVERTEBRATES - ABALONES - WHITE ABALONE - ENDANGERED - POPULATION ESTIMATES - SONAR MAPPING

Preliminary report on the photo-identification of blue whales off Isla de Chiloe, Chile from 2004 to 2006 Cabrera, Elsa, Carole A. Carlson, Barbara Galletti Vernazzani, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Paper SC/58/SH18 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC58 meeting, St. Kitts and Nevis, 2006). 5 p.

U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessments: 2005 Carretta, James V., Karin A. Forney, Marcia M. Muto, Jay Barlow, Jason Baker, Brad Hanson, and Mark S. Lowry, with contributions from Dale Sweetnam, Chris Yates, Don Petersen, and Joe Cordaro U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-388. 317 p. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - PINNIPEDS - PACIFIC - SURVEYS - STOCKS - ASSESSMENTS

Ichthyoplankton, paralarval cephalopod, and station data for oblique (bongo) plankton tows from the Oregon, California, and Washington Line-Transect Expedition (ORCAWALE) in 2001 Charter, Sharon R., Barbara S. MacCall, Richard L. Charter, Susan M. Manion, William Watson, and Lisa T. Ballance U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-393. 41 p. ICHTHYOPLANKTON DATA - STATION DATA - OBLIQUE PLANKTON TOWS (BONGO) - INVERTEBRATES - CEPHALOPODS - PARALARVAL - JUVENILE - LINE-TRANSECT - SURVEYS - CALIFORNIA - OREGON - WASHINGTON - ORCAWALE - ECOSYSTEM STUDIES - NOAA R/V - MCARTHUR - DAVID STARR JORDAN

Improved parameterization of the SDWBA for estimating krill target strength Conti, Stéphane G., and David A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science 63(5):928-935